31 years ago the world bore witness to the ideological rupture between the Communist State in China and its citizenry that led to the iconic image of a man standing in front of a tank, a day after China’s military troops had brutally suppressed the Tiananmen Square protests, leaving thousands dead and injured, and silencing the last major movement for…
The people of the Mekong region countries have seen the Mekong water level drop to their lowest points in more than 100 years due to the severe drought in 2019, coupled by China’s hydropower dams blocking the remaining water coming from the Tibetan plateau. Water flowing from upstream China contributes about 70% of downstream water in the dry season but the building…
For the first time, a comprehensive analysis of available data from authentic sources have been used to study the actual impact of the ongoing global lockdown on the natural environment, particularly air pollution. Surprisingly, my study as presented in the article, found that the carbon reduction as result of the ongoing global lockdown has saved more life than lost during…
A bespectacled leader of Taiwan was sworn in for her second term as President of the island nation a few days ago. President Tsai remains one of the few world leaders showcasing effective leadership in tackling the COVID – 19 pandemic, and belongs to a select group of female leaders in particular to do so. Yet her presidency, the first…
The world is currently facing the dilemma of tackling the COVID – 19 pandemic, along with attempting to jumpstart a failing global economy and a host of corollary issues related to the disease that a few months ago did not register anywhere along the Richter scale of “news worthiness”. At the present moment our social media accounts and news channels…
The Naku La face-off in North Sikkim at the height of COVID-19 ends, but the dispute over Tibet-Sikkim boundary begins. The Sino-Indian borders of Sikkim and Himachal Pradesh are considered as undisputed between India and Chinese-occupied Tibet. But China has recently opened new fronts in the Indian states of Sikkim and Himachal Pradesh, which is so called China’s “Early Harvest”…
The State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA) issued a regulation titled Measures for the Administration of Religious Groups on January 1, 2020. The regulation consists of 41 articles under six chapters that came into effect on February 1, 2020. Although the regulation is issued under the aegis of SARA, a government agency that oversees religious issues and execute religious policies,…
Tibetans are continuously controlled through camera networks ad artificial intelligence. Now, Huawei’s highest 5G base station on Mount Everest will also favor international cyber-espionage. Mount Everest, now home to the highest 5G base station in the world (credits). Repressing Tibet before and after the coronavirus Amidst fears of the coronavirus sending billions of people into lockdown around the world, China…
The Global Times, China’s English language mouthpiece, published an article on April 27, 2020 entitled “Exiled Tibetans eye to return to China for fear of virus“. It distorted the current status of exile Tibetans living in India and Nepal during the coronavirus crisis. The recently published article attempts to undermine the Indian public healthcare system by suggesting that exile Tibetans…
On April 27, 2020, Global Times published an article titled “Exiled Tibetans eye return to China for fear of virus” which claimed that Tibetans living in India and Nepal “recognized the measures taken in the past months in Southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region and even expressed the wish to return to China”. The Global Times is a subsidiary of the…
The Coronavirus pandemic, which originated from the Wuhan city of China last year, has affected and disturbed the world greatly. It has created a war-like situation in public health, economy, and politics and in international relations around the world. Many theories came up as to the cause of the Coronavirus, a spurt from the Wuhan wet market to an accident…
Lozang Choki Nyima Gelek Namgyel, the Ninth Panchen Lama lived fifteen years in exile in Inner Mongolia and China until his premature death at the age of 54. Far away from home, the prelate played a significant role in the Sino-Tibetan relations. The prelate was inspired by Sun Yat-sen’s “Three Principles of the People,” namely, nationalism, democracy and the well-being…
The year 2020 will live in infamy in the memory of the global community, alongside the 1918 Influenza pandemic, the 2003 SARS epidemic, etc. The COVID – 19 virus, otherwise known as the Novel Corona Virus, has rapidly spread across the world, crippling economies and governments while there have been 827, 419 confirmed cases of infection across 206 countries /…
Tibet remains a challenge for both U.S. and China because it is one of the most difficult issues in U.S.-China relations. The question is why is it so? In order to answer this query, it is important to make a sense of the historical trajectory of America’s relation with Tibet and its involvement in Tibet issue vis-a-vis China. Why does…
China, in its attempt to legitimize its occupation of Tibet, has invented myriads of days and events to congratulate itself and to create a platform to dole out its propaganda. “Serfs’ Emancipation Day” on March 28 is one of those days. It was invented in January 2009, more specifically to counter the March 10th Tibetan uprising day. Despite the chaos…